In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

By Matt Bell and Matt Bell

Book Overview

A newly-wed couple escape a busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to lead a simple life there, fishing the lake, trapping the nearby woods and building a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife's beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods... A powerful exploration of the limits of parenthood and marriage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616952539
• ISBN13: 9781616952532
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Couldn’t Get Into It

The author is definitely very skilled. It’s written very poetically which requires a lot of effort to comprehend so really it just depends on what kind of a book your looking for. This is not an easy read by any means. Doesn’t mean that it’s bad, just not what I was looking for.